Currently I am implementing HMC 4.5 from iso media "HMC-4.5.228.0.iso"

I printed out the help and completely read it over the last 2 months before beginning deployment.

Deployment is using the "Windows Server 2008 Environment"

 ---Environment and Background---

Got a bit stuck on item "W08-DWCM.10: To install certificate services" as I was not sure the type of the root to select as it was not listed in the document so I left it at default.

Everything else worked as expected and I followed the document exactly. Well... I did vary a smige.....

--Name the SQL service account MPSSQL not MPSSQLService

--Created a "Service Accounts" & "Security Groups" OU's and created MPSClusterAdmin, MPSSQLCluster, MPSSQL, ClusteredFullTextSearch, ClusteredSQLServer, and ClusteredSQLAgent in the respective OU. I later found reference to http://forums.asp.net/p/1374570/2885206.aspx#2885206 and figured that somewhere HMC will used the x500 distinguished name to reference these objects so I moved the user and group accounts into the USERS ou.

--On all servers the local administrator is renamed, the domain administrator is also renamed. This was done at initial install of the OS and AD before any software or updates.

So what I meant to say is that I followed the document almost exactly [*-)]

I applied all available windows updates as instructed in the documentation and after some research, found that SQL2005 SP3 was certified for HMC 4.5 so I applied that to the cluster without issue.

All servers (including AD01 / 02) were built fresh.

I am using 3 dedicated IP subnets for deployment

10.9.1.x/24 - Zone1
10.9.2.x/24 - Zone2
10.9.3.x/24 - Zone3

All IP communication is working as expected and policy on the firewall is allowing all traffic between zone subnets. 

Review of event logs on all servers shows no issues.

Procedure "W08-DWSPV.23: To Install IIS on MPS01 and MPS02" instructs to install:


    *1. Application Server Console

    *2.  Enable network COM+ access

    * 3. Enable network DTC access

    *4.  Internet Information Services(IIS)

    * 4a. Common Files

    * 4b. Internet Information Services Manager

    * 4c. World Wide Web Service

It also says - "You must install Internet Information Services (IIS), including Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions, Network DTC, and Network COM+ Access on MPS01 and MPS02" but the was no step to install the FrontPage extensions. I decided to install it on both MPS01 and MPS02.

Procedure "W08-DWSPV.30: To configure Active Directory by using the Deployment Tool" instructs: (AD is Windows 2008 Native) 

Under the Initialize Active Directory component, right-click Native Mode, and then select Confirm irreversible Native Mode conversion.

The only options are Cancel Install or Force State. Force State makes sense but the "use this feature with caution" message gave me reason to pause and get verification so I left it in the (looks like a cd icon with a red x to the left and a cd icon with a green + to the right) state as "Confirm irreversible Native Mode conversion" was not available as a choice.

All others selections were good.

---Deployment Problem W08:DVSPV.31 step 8---

I click Start Deployment and ........

Exception: Microsoft.Provisioning.DeploymentTool.Engine.DeploymentExceptionDeploymentFailed
HResult: -2146233088
Message: Deployment interrupted because of a failure. See inner exception.

Stack Trace:
   at Microsoft.Provisioning.DeploymentTool.Engine.Deployment.DoDeploymentWork()
   at Microsoft.Provisioning.DeploymentTool.MainForm.ExecuteDeploymentSlice()

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Inner Exception (1): System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryServicesCOMException
HResult: -2147016651
Message: The server is unwilling to process the request. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80072035)

Stack Trace:
   at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.CommitChanges()
   at Microsoft.Provisioning.DeploymentTool.Engine.ActiveDirectory.set_NativeMode(Boolean value)
   at Microsoft.Provisioning.DeploymentTool.Engine.ActiveDirectoryNativeModeEntity.Install(DeploymentAction da)
   at Microsoft.Provisioning.DeploymentTool.Engine.SystemPropertyDeploymentAction.BeginAction()
   at Microsoft.Provisioning.DeploymentTool.Engine.DeploymentAction.Update()




Sorry for the long post but I wanted to describe the environment instead of just posting that it doesn't work.

I reverified all steps and it did not help.  Any assistance you can provide me would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Brady